Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alexander Burnard
Letter No. VWL3996
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alexander Burnard
Letter No.: VWL3996
The White Gates
Dorking
Surrey
8 Aug 1951
Dear Burnard
Thankyou both for your kind and sympathetic message.
I was much interested in your quotation from your prelude – I cannot see any likeness to any tune of mine. I think that any composer worth his salt always “cribs” when he wants to – I came upon a curious coincidence the other day which I had never noticed before, well as I know both works –
Brahms Bb pfte concerto
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Verdi Requiem
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R Vaughan Williams
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